Suzanne Brockman

Contemporary

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NYPD detective Sam Schaefer shows up on the scene to protect Ivy League professor and actress Ellen Layne after she begins receiving threatening phone calls.

Ellen knows Sam's smitten, but then again he has been since the two shared an intense and intimate one-night affair a week before -- her first ever, even after her train wreck of a marriage.

Ellen trusts Sam to protect her and her children, but not with her heart; he's 10 years her junior and has player written all over him.

And Sam's finally learning what all the girls he's played in the past may have gone through: This one-way love thing really stinks.

Brockman is an inordinately skillful storyteller and writer who creates exceptional relationship-focused, action-oriented, and high-probability re-read romances.